A history of the American nation . C^hefc arc thcLincS ihatjhw thyTace;hut thofc rrhatjhew thy GrOCC and ^lofy, hrl^hUr he : rrhj- Tairc-Difcouertes and -Fowlc Overthrowes Of SdvaqCS^mach CivitUzd fy ;atid -to it Glory oyynX. artBrafc without, tut ^otdc Within., 30 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION ing its own officers and managing its affairs.^ This companyof men was a large and vigorous body, including many men. of means and distinction; they were determined to make asuccess of colonization, and they, set energetically to work. * By the charter of 1609, the line of the corporat
A history of the American nation . C^hefc arc thcLincS ihatjhw thyTace;hut thofc rrhatjhew thy GrOCC and ^lofy, hrl^hUr he : rrhj- Tairc-Difcouertes and -Fowlc Overthrowes Of SdvaqCS^mach CivitUzd fy ;atid -to it Glory oyynX. artBrafc without, tut ^otdc Within., 30 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION ing its own officers and managing its affairs.^ This companyof men was a large and vigorous body, including many men. of means and distinction; they were determined to make asuccess of colonization, and they, set energetically to work. * By the charter of 1609, the line of the corporations lands on the eastwas to run along the coast, two hundred miles on each side of Point Com-fort, and the grant included all that Space and Circuit of Land lying fromthe Sea-Coast of the province aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout fromSea to Sea West and Northwest and islands within one hundred miles ofthe coast. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES—1607-1700 31 By the old arrangement affairs in the colony had been in thehands of a council, and its members wrangled and disputedwhile things went to ruin. The new company sent out a gov-ernor with supreme authority, and under the stern, hard ruleof a masterful man the work went on; the colony lived—lived, it is true, a hard life and a dreary one; but it lived.^ In the course of a few years, some five or six after the grant-ing of the charter, the little settlement came to have
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